Only collective action by regional players can stop the slide to totalitarianism, says Columbia’s School of International and Public affairs lecturer Christopher Sabatini

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He is the author of Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela THE MADURO FILE Born Nicolás Maduro Moros, 23 November 1962, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Meanwhile international pressure mounted on Maduro as his country and government became increasingly isolated, after two top political opponents under house arrest were dragged from their homes in midnight raids.

Maduro has convened a national vote to elect a Constituent Assembly to redraft the country’s constitution.

In Venezuela, the people govern.” Observers warn that the country teeters on the edge.

Chavez was not forced into firing all foreign and many Venezuelan oil workers for which Venezuela's oil industry has still not recovered.

This sham constituent assembly does not provide food, medicine and security for the people of Venezuela, it consolidates the government's lock on power in the face of overwhelming public dissatisfaction.

The history of South America over last 100 years is democratically elected governments being overthrown by right wing millitary dicatorships(with support from CIA) and murder on a mass scale of cvillians by their paramilitary forces.

Once he dreamed of turning his country into a workers’ paradise, but as Venezuelans go to the polls today in a vote on constitutional changes, Chávez’s heir stands accused of becoming a virtual dictator

The US is screaming about Russian interference in the 2016 election but when Hugo Chavez tried to get a fair price for Venezuelan oil the US tired to over throw his government.

Chavez was not forced into firing all foreign and many Venezuelan oil workers for which Venezuela's oil industry has still not recovered.

The US ships high quality oil to Venezuela which is mixed with Venezuela's dirty oil and then exported.

US developments in unconventional oil and gas (shale, CBM etc) basically put a cap on the oil price - since unconventional reserves are so large, and so well distributed globally.

Inconveniently for his critics he is being proved right about the disaster the Chavistas have perpetrated on Venezuela and her people whereas the "free thinkers" you champion have gone very quiet indeed.